Right, but they are only doing that because they serve so much traffic. The original post suggested performance "falls to shit pretty immediately at load." I ca

Right, but they are only doing that because they serve so much traffic. The original post suggested performance "falls to shit pretty immediately at load." I cannot imagine they meant that you need to do some serious gymnastics to get around performance bottlenecks when you get to Facebook's scale. My supposition is that most web scripting languages would need tuning at that level.